Spring 2010

Contents

• EDITORIAL
• Mel Gibson The State of the (Sequential) Art?: Signs of Changing Perceptions of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels in Britain
• Paul Gravett From Tintin to Titeuf: Is the Anglophone Market too Tough for French Comics for Children?
• David Fickling The Short but Continuing Life of The DFC
• Marcia Williams Out of the Box
• Janet Evans Raymond Briggs: Blurring the Boundaries among Comics, Graphic Novels, Picture Books and Illustrated Books
• Bill Boerman-Cornell Graphic Novels in the High-School Classroom
• Sarah McIntyre Britain’s Comics Explosion
• Ariel Kahn Reading between the Lines: The Subversion of Authority in Comics and Graphic Novels Written for Young Adults
• Dora Oronti Richard Felton Outcault and The Yellow Kid
• Daniel Moreira de Sousa Pinna As Old as Clay
• Petros Panaou and Frixos Michaelides The Power of Hybrids: Complex and Effective Visual Narratives that Resist Categorisation
• Stefania Tondo Crossing a Graphic Text with Classics of Children’s Literature: Disney Manga Kingdom Hearts
• Kimberley Black ‘Remember Me’: An Afrocentric Reading of Pitch Black
• Rebecca R. Butler Graphic Novels and the Holocaust
• Erica Gillingham Copulating, Coming Out and Comics: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schragg
• Rachel Johnson Is Henty’s History Lost in Graphic Translation? Won by the Sword in 45 pages
• Vasiliki Labitsi Sequences of Frames by Young Creators: The Impact of Comics in Children’s Artistic Development
• Malini Roy ‘To Entertain and Educate Young Minds’: Graphic Novels for Children in Indian Publishing
• Lara Saguisag Strangely Familiar: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and the Universalised Immigrant Experience
• Mariana Spanaki Journeys in Time in Graphic Novels from Greece
• Emma Vieceli Crossing Boundaries
• Jessica Yates Superhero Comics and Graphic Novels
• Hilary Young Composing and Performing Masculinities: Of Reading Boys’ Comics c. 1930–1955
• Reviews
• Reports
• Forthcoming Events
• News
• IBBY News